WQPoetry

Pick any of the poems we've examined in class so far for your analysis. Use the same format as the literary work, although you may need to develop your understanding of poetry as a form distinct from prose.
For examples:
How to analyze a literary work such as Ode to Broken Things (using MLA formatting conventions)

1. Introduce a literary movement to which the literary work belongs.
   1. For Broken Things, the appropriate literary movement is: . For others it might be the _??? movement.
      1. To find out about these movements, you need to do a little research so that you can write down in your introduction its major characteristics:
         1. Movement Characteristics are :
            1. Characteristic 1
            2. Characteristic 2
            3. Characteristic 3
            4. Characteristic 4
               (Make sure you cite your sources so that your readers know that you are credible)
2. Introduce the literary work: author, date, place. Short summary of the whole work/the parts you are examining
3. Show how the literary work is an example of Movement X by selecting pieces of the text to include as short descriptions or quotations from the literary work.
   1. Broken Things event/process/character on pg X matches Characteristic 1
   2. Broken Things event/process/character on pg Y matches Characteristic 2
   3. etc – perhaps 3 or 4 examples are sufficient to show that the literary work conforms to the literary movement you have previously described.
4. Separate the content/message from the medium (structure)
   o what is the content/message? Give a brief summary paying attention to emotional mood of the speaker
   o what is the medium/structure? Can you describe it using appropriate terminology? Where will you find appropriate poetry terminology relating to structure of poetry?
   · Consider each (content/structure) separately: what can we say about each?
   o Content
   § Speaker/speakers
   § Mood
   § Audience
   § Characters
   § Plot/narrative
   o Structure
   § rhyme
   § rythme/meter/syllables
   § length (poem, lines)
   § vocabulary
   § time frame
   § introduction/middle/end ?